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A young apprentice asks her father why anyone would love such a stubborn stone. His answer comes from Confucius himself.

A poor man finds the finest jade in the world hidden in a rough rock, and no one believes him. The ancient Chinese legend of the Heshi Bi, told in a rainy teahouse.

In 1968, a young soldier's shovel broke into a hillside and found a prince who had been sleeping in a suit of jade for more than two thousand years.

A grandmother slips a jade bangle onto her granddaughter's wrist, and tells her about the winter morning her own bangle broke to protect her.

A hidden staircase, four years of digging, and a Maya king who became ruler at twelve, buried with a mask of jade. A grandmother in Palenque tells the story.

On the night before his grandson leaves home, a Māori grandfather gives him a greenstone pendant, and tells him the legend of Waitaiki, the woman who became the river's stone.